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It's not an illusion. I've been on HN across various accounts for over a decade. There is a hard liberal-progressive tilt to comments and post flagging which ha
by brickfaced 2y ago
It's not an illusion. I've been on HN across various accounts for over a decade. There is a hard liberal-progressive tilt to comments and post flagging which has been documented and remarked upon by others on sites where such comments don't get flagged and removed. Your own bias is also quite obvious, as is that of pg, who is now known on Twitter as a block-happy liberal lolcow. But thanks for posting all that, I'm glad Bolsheviks seething at Mensheviks haven't escaped your attention.
- dang 2y agoI still think my explanation is more convincing, but perhaps that's just me. I'm curious why you asked "when did HN become this" if you're now telling us that it's been "this" for over a decade. > which has been documented and remarked upon by others on sites You should supply links so readers can make up their own minds about how convincing this documentation is.
- brickfaced 2y agoSure, here are some remarks on news dot ycombinator dot com https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43141350 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43141350 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43141963 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43141963 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43142108 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43142108
- dang 2y agoI wouldn't call this documentation in the sense that I thought you meant the word. These are examples of users complaining about HN in the way many users always complain about HN. You'll find countless such comments making general claims about how the site is "all X" or "has become Y" or "never allows any Z". The problem is that these perceptions are not reliable—people base them on datapoints that they happen to notice because they dislike them so much [1], and from there they jump to general conclusions. [1] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=by%3Adang%20notice%20dislike&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
- brickfaced 2y agoI'm willing to believe you mean what you say and are posting in good faith, but please read this comment and others on its link and tell me with a straight face there's no strong lib-left bias in HN's community moderation: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43209997 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43209997 (edit) And here's a nice response to my comment from a user with thousands of karma, illustrative IMO of the average flagger-and-remover: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43211418 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43211418